National Library buys 8000 manuscripts

Israel’s National Library has purchased 8,000 or so texts at Sotheby’s from the Valmadonna Trust collection. They include a 1491 Lisbon Bible; a 1556 Prague Passover Haggadah and the 16th Century Plantin Polyglot “King’s Bible” in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Aramaic and Syriac.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/national-library-makes-historic-acquisition-of-rare-hebrew-texts/

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